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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Melbourne, FL

October 7, 1996Lake County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 7, 1996, 4:27 PM EDT for Lake County, Florida. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 7, 1996, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: Oct 7, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Lake County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 7, 4:45 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Mt Dora, FL
Oct 7, 4:52 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Eustis, FL

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1481 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMLB 072028
TORMLB
FLC069-072130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
427 PM EDT MON OCT 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL FLORIDA
 
   ...LAKE COUNTY
 
AT 425 PM...DOPPLER RADAR AT MELBOURNE CONTINUED TO INDICATE A STRONG
TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF MT. DORA. THIS TORNADO WILL MOVE TOWARDS
TAVARES...OAKLAND PARK...EUSTIS AND UMATILLA. THIS TORNADO HAS TOUCHED
DOWN AND PRODUCED DAMAGE WITHIN THE PAST HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN
A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SE"EK SHELTER IN A
CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
SPRATT
 
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 7, 8:45 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Volusia	60 min
Oct 7, 3:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Lake	60 min
Oct 7, 4:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Seminole	66 min
Oct 7, 5:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Volusia	56 min
Oct 7, 5:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Volusia	64 min
Oct 7, 7:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Okeechobee	57 min
Oct 7, 7:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Indian River	39 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.